(v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.
(v. t.) To pen; to confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(2) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(3) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(4) Catheter occlusion of the right lower pulmonary artery allowed evaluation of the integrity of the remaining pulmonary vascular bed as well as improvement of the patient's hemodynamic condition pending more definitive therapy.
(5) The spokesman added that there were already "quite a few cases pending".
(6) UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam Read more A previous draft report prepared by the arms export controls select committee was set to call for a suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi pending an independent investigation into the way the Saudi-led coalition was conducting a bombing campaign in Yemen.
(7) The implications for ethics committees of the pending federal Patient Self-Determination Act are discussed here by John C. Fletcher in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: yes," and by Alexander Morgan Capron in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: not now."
(8) Greens in the European parliament, as well as in France and Germany , called for the conference to be postponed pending an investigation of the allegations.
(9) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
(10) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
(11) These conclusions must be considered tentative, pending other studies to disprove the presence of new molecular species with no change in net charge or size.
(12) As pharmacists are legally or unofficially involved in many areas with few facilities, it may be questioned how their contribution may be more effective pending the development of more extensive official programs.
(13) The TLU was well tolerated by the patients; only two patients refused the TLU pending discussion of the technique with their obstetrician.
(14) Although supporters have stumped up £180,000, it is expected bail will be refused, pending a full hearing of Sweden's extradition request.
(15) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
(16) Successful application of CAD technology for bridge to transplant or pending recovery of the natural heart requires understanding issues involving team readiness, patient selection, device limitations, patient management, and complications.
(17) But the pending toughening of the rules merely angers lawyers acting for the detainees even more – why, they ask, did the Obama administration not act more quickly to effect transfers before the squeeze was imposed.
(18) Pending delivery, which is the only definitive therapy for preeclampsia, maternal complications of intracerebral hemorrhage and eclampsia may be prevented with judicious use of antihypertensive medication (e.g., hydralazine) and magnesium sulfate, respectively.
(19) Balls's intervention came in the wake of News International announcing yesterday that Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor, had been suspended before Christmas pending an investigation into whether he had instructed reporters to hack phones, or had knowledge of the practice.
(20) He is reported to have expressed unhappiness at his own pending deployment and of US troops being responsible for the killing of fellow Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Penk
Definition:
(n.) A minnow. See Pink, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) To study the role of the PENK gene in opioid related processes, an antisense sequence of PENK gene was subcloned into pSVL SV 40 late promoter expression vector and stably transfected into NG 108-15 cells, which contain opioid receptors.
(2) From steady-state kinetics half-life estimates of 9.6 h for PPenk mRNA and 14.7 h for Penk peptide were obtained.
(3) The Penk Combat Exposure scale did not separate the groups.
(4) "I was half expecting to see him on Songs of Praise," Penk added.
(5) Clinical observations and empirical evidence suggest that, among Vietnam combat veterans, Blacks are more maladjusted than Whites (e.g., Parsons, 1985; Penk et al., 1985).
(6) Penk, who now owns the Oldham-based local radio station 96.2 Revolution, said he was "appalled" at the "sheer scale of this unfair cross-promotion".
(7) "In these hard times it is difficult enough for the large, quasi-national commercial radio brands to compete with such unfair 'free' publicity," said Penk.
(8) The Penk Combat Intensity scale, which was correlated highly with the Keane scale, differentiated the PTSD-positive patients from both the normals and the PTSD-negative patients, but with less differentiating power (omega 2'S = .07 and .08).
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The former Capital and Virgin Radio DJ Steve Penk has written to the BBC Trust to complain about the "excessive" and "gratuitous" cross-promotion of Chris Evans's new Radio 2 breakfast show on television.
(10) An increase in PENK mRNA levels has been also observed in cultures treated with 8-Br-cAMP, phorbol 12-myristate-13-acetate (TPA), or dexamethasone.
(11) Thus, activation of Penk gene expression upon neurotransmitter challenge is suggested to be due to an enhanced transcriptional activity of the gene mediated by de novo synthesized protein (-like) factors.
(12) We suggest that both the increased PENK message and the unchanged levels of free Met-enkephalin may be the result of compensatory mechanisms induced by translational inhibition by antisense, although the underlying processes remain to be determined.
(13) Penk was also critical of what he called the "placement" of Evans on BBC TV shows including Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, the One Show and the Andrew Marr Show.
(14) Unilateral adrenal denervation resulted in a rapid decrease in PPenk mRNA levels of 54% after 2 days, and by 11 days 90% of Penk mRNA had disappeared.
(15) Penk claimed the Evans trail broke the BBC Trust's own policy on cross-promotion.
(16) However, incubation of the cultures with the opioid agonist etorphine or the antagonist naltrexone did not alter PENK gene expression, suggesting that there is not feedback control of opioids on PENK biosynthesis in these cells.
(17) In this study we identified the potential sites of synthesis by localizing the mRNA coding for PENK in the rat pituitary gland using in situ hybridization histochemistry.
(18) Depolarization with potassium chloride (KCl) or veratridine increases the expression of PENK mRNA in a time-dependent fashion, with a maximal increase of sixfold.
(19) The proenkephalin A (PENK) gene codes for several opioid peptides, including Met-enkephalin, an endogenous ligand of opioid receptors.
(20) After an initial lag phase (with no major alterations) Penk mRNA increased markedly between 6 and 12 h followed by a slower, steady increase up to 48 h. The nicotinic receptor antagonist tubocurarine (4 x 10(-7) M) and the Ca2+ channel blocker D600 (10(-5) M) prevent the subsequent rise of Penk mRNA levels after challenge with nicotine, when given within the lag phase (0-6 h), suggesting the need of continuous receptor occupation and Ca2+ entry for induction of gene expression.